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Practical tips for modifying an existing course into a hybrid one. Covers planning and scheduling learning activities, and building a learning community in class and online. *This workshop counts towards completion of any of CITL's Teaching Certificates. To learn more about our Teaching Certificate program please visit https://go.illinois.edu/teaching_certificates.
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Join us in an online session using OneNote 365 where we will discuss the structure of notebooks, practice putting data into them, and explore the interconnectivity of Microsoft applications with OneNote. This session is aimed for beginner users of OneNote. Register by 8 am to get link sent.
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Join us for virtual office hours every Tuesday from 10-11am and Wednesday from 1-2pm on Zoom. Jamie and Megan will be there to answer your questions about the CITL Innovation Spaces, emerging technologies, student engagement, Zoom, PowerPoint, and other educational technologies on campus! Ask us anything! If we don’t have the answer, we’ll point you to someone who does.
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Register for this session to learn about specific features and tips for using Outlook more productively, followed by Q&A of specific scenarios.
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Are you new to Zoom or just new to hosting class meetings with it? Learn about basic meeting tools like managing your participants and sharing your screen. Check your Zoom settings and security, schedule meetings for your course, see how to access those meetings from course sites, and hear about other tips and tools. We will also have time for Q&A.
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In this 2-hour short online course, you will become familiar with the Excel 2016 interface. Topics will also include entering, editing, and formatting data in a worksheet, performing basic formulas, printing and using Help.
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This 2 hour Outlook Calendar worship, participants will learn to schedule & edit appointments; work with calendar labels and tasks displayed on the Calendar. We will schedule with the Scheduling Assistant, practice scheduling a conference room, and discuss scheduling Online Meetings, and discuss calendar permissions.
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Have you been asked to put together a PowerPoint presentation, but you're not sure how to start? Participate in this short online course and learn the basics, including how to create slides and put content in them. We will also learn how to format and custom design the slides.
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We have many options for scheduling online meetings these days. We will use Outlook for a central place to keep track of several kinds of online meetings and to make sure we have reminders. We will look at recommendations for scheduling with Skype for Business, Zoom and Microsoft Teams.
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Learn tricks on how to captivate your audience with a more engaging presentation. *This workshop counts towards completion of any of CITL's Teaching Certificates. To learn more about our Teaching Certificate program please visit https://go.illinois.edu/teaching_certificates.
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In this 2-hour online workshop we will explore the whole set of features for managing information in tables in Excel 2016. These features make all the typical tabular manipulations—sorting, filtering, analyzing, and formatting, easier than ever.
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Learning is not a spectator sport. Students must be cognitively, physically, and affectively engaged for deeper learning and retention to occur. You will explore and practice several active learning strategies, beginning with those that can be easily implemented and are of low risk. *This workshop counts towards completion of any of CITL's Teaching Certificates.
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Join us for virtual office hours every Tuesday from 10-11am and Wednesday from 1-2pm on Zoom. Jamie and Megan will be there to answer your questions about the CITL Innovation Spaces, emerging technologies, student engagement, Zoom, PowerPoint, and other educational technologies on campus! Ask us anything! If we don’t have the answer, we’ll point you to someone who does.
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This online session will cover specific features of InDesign, followed by Q&A. We will also work through a beginning tutorial and make a postcard.
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In this 2-hour short course you will learn how to add, divide, multiply, and subtract by entering formulas into Excel 2016 worksheets. Other topics will include an exploration of just a few of the hundreds of functions available in Excel. We will learn how to find a specific function, as well as how to get help while entering arguments.
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Try Zoom features like breakout rooms and polls to engage students. Run reports from Zoom to track attendance and polling results. Learn how to record sessions and incorporate them into your course site. We will also have time for Q&A
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In this session, we’ll have a conversation about what kinds of course policies (particularly about absence, deadlines, and use of technology) might be best for the upcoming semester. Don't expect clear-cut answers; expect instead to hear important considerations for making your own decisions.
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The Champaign County Museum Network, along with the Spurlock, Krannert Art Museum, and other area museums, will host a trivia contest January 12 through February 7! This family-friendly contest challenges community members to experience local museums, science centers, nature centers, and archives virtually in order to answer some fun and engaging trivia questions.
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Want to immediately improve the teaching & learning in your course? Maximize information from the ICES Online (last semester) and the Informal Early Feedback-IEF (this semester). *This workshop counts towards completion of any of CITL's Teaching Certificates. To learn more about our Teaching Certificate program please visit https://go.illinois.edu/teaching_certificates.
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The Champaign County Museum Network, along with the Spurlock, Krannert Art Museum, and other area museums, will host a trivia contest January 12 through February 7! This family-friendly contest challenges community members to experience local museums, science centers, nature centers, and archives virtually in order to answer some fun and engaging trivia questions.
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The Champaign County Museum Network, along with the Spurlock, Krannert Art Museum, and other area museums, will host a trivia contest January 12 through February 7! This family-friendly contest challenges community members to experience local museums, science centers, nature centers, and archives virtually in order to answer some fun and engaging trivia questions.
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We invite you to join us for this informational session. Materials and discussion will cover the Fellowship and other programs, including: Collaborative Research, Digital Humanities Advancement Grants, Public Scholars, and Scholarly Editions and Scholarly Translations. Panelists are among the recent NEH Fellowship and grant recipients on our campus and will share their exp
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Led by Assistant Dean for Career & Professional Development in the Graduate College, Derek Attig, this information session for potential applicants to the HWW Summer Bridge Experience will explain the application process.
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Black Power on Campus is an informative piece that captures the intentional activism of Black students at the University of Illinois following the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Attendees will relive those students’ hopes and dreams for a university that honors the Black student experience, diversity in education, and equal opportunities for all students.
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Microsoft Publisher 2016 is a desktop publishing application capable of producing cards, certificates, newsletters, and other material. Topics covered in this 6-hour course include the interface and creating a basic publication; adding text, text frames and picture placeholders; formatting text, including styles and connecting text frames; editing text and graphics frames.
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Claudrena N. Harold, author of the new book, "When Sunday Comes," Greg Tate and Corey D.B. Walker discuss the sacred soundscapes and search for the Divine in black music.
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The Champaign County Museum Network, along with the Spurlock, Krannert Art Museum, and other area museums, will host a trivia contest January 12 through February 7! This family-friendly contest challenges community members to experience local museums, science centers, nature centers, and archives virtually in order to answer some fun and engaging trivia questions.
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Join David Northern, Sr., MPA, CEO of the Housing Authority of Champaign County (HACC), to discuss his organizing efforts towards HACC technology goals and measure current levels of broadband access, adoption, and use.
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In this 2-hour online workshop, you will learn how to select data in a worksheet and work with Chart tools to customize the chart type, chart layout, and chart style that best represents the selected data. Once the chart is exactly the way you want it, we will learn how to save it as a template to use again.
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UI Press authors Annette Joseph-Gabriel and Tiffany N. Florvil, join other scholars for a lively conversation about global race studies, Black diaspora studies, and transnational feminisism.
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Try Zoom features like breakout rooms and polls to engage students. Run reports from Zoom to track attendance and polling results. Learn how to record sessions and incorporate them into your course site. We will also have time for Q&A. Try Zoom features like breakout rooms and polls to engage students. Run reports from Zoom to track attendance and polling results. Learn h
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Join us for virtual office hours every Tuesday from 10-11am and Wednesday from 1-2pm on Zoom. Jamie and Megan will be there to answer your questions about the CITL Innovation Spaces, emerging technologies, student engagement, Zoom, PowerPoint, and other educational technologies on campus! Ask us anything! If we don’t have the answer, we’ll point you to someone who does.
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During this two hour-long session, we will go over the basics of the Photoshop interface and some resources on how to continue learning features. Instructor will point out her favorite beginner tutorials and resources. Q & A to follow
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The Champaign County Museum Network, along with the Spurlock, Krannert Art Museum, and other area museums, will host a trivia contest January 12 through February 7! This family-friendly contest challenges community members to experience local museums, science centers, nature centers, and archives virtually in order to answer some fun and engaging trivia questions.
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In this session, you'll learn how to organize readings for easy access, create self-grading tests, and set columns to accurately calculate basic course grades. Most importantly, you'll learn how Compass can actively support your students' learning and reduce your administrative load. Registration is required.
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In this new 1-hour online course, you will learn about conditional formatting of data in Excel 2016. Topics will also include applying special formatting to numbers.
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During this information session, Dr. Cynthia Oliver, Associate VCRI – HARF, will provide an overview of the pilot Arts CO+RE program and answer questions about the application process.
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Let's meet online to talk about Photoshop. In this two-hour session, we will start working through some curriculum, work with layers and learn to edit in a non-destructive way. Register by 9 am to get meeting link sent.
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Join Tiffany N. Florvil and Keisha N. Blain for a virtual event celebrating the release of Florvil's book "Mobilizing Black Germany: Afro-German Women and the Making of a Transnational Movement" on January 21, at 4:30pm EST. Register for the event here: https://bit.ly/FlorvilEvent
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The Champaign County Museum Network, along with the Spurlock, Krannert Art Museum, and other area museums, will host a trivia contest January 12 through February 7! This family-friendly contest challenges community members to experience local museums, science centers, nature centers, and archives virtually in order to answer some fun and engaging trivia questions.
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In this 2-hour online course, we will spend time adjusting images in Photoshop, using Adjustment Layers, and explore several kinds of image adjustments. We will also explore image editing in a non-destructive method. Register by noon to have link sent.
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The Champaign County Museum Network, along with the Spurlock, Krannert Art Museum, and other area museums, will host a trivia contest January 12 through February 7! This family-friendly contest challenges community members to experience local museums, science centers, nature centers, and archives virtually in order to answer some fun and engaging trivia questions.
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The Champaign County Museum Network, along with the Spurlock, Krannert Art Museum, and other area museums, will host a trivia contest January 12 through February 7! This family-friendly contest challenges community members to experience local museums, science centers, nature centers, and archives virtually in order to answer some fun and engaging trivia questions.
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The Champaign County Museum Network, along with the Spurlock, Krannert Art Museum, and other area museums, will host a trivia contest January 12 through February 7! This family-friendly contest challenges community members to experience local museums, science centers, nature centers, and archives virtually in order to answer some fun and engaging trivia questions.
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Participants will receive a clear checklist of how to update copied content in the Compass sites as well as targeted instruction on the process. This is a hands-on session with plenty of time for questions. All sessions will be customized to the participants’ needs and include training on using a simple campus survey. Registration is required.
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The Champaign County Museum Network, along with the Spurlock, Krannert Art Museum, and other area museums, will host a trivia contest January 12 through February 7! This family-friendly contest challenges community members to experience local museums, science centers, nature centers, and archives virtually in order to answer some fun and engaging trivia questions.
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This two-hour online session will introduce you to Microsoft's relational database application, Access 2016. Attendees will take a tour of the objects in an Access database, including tables, queries, forms, and reports.
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Get an introduction on our emerging technologies! During this workshop we walk you through the experiences and activities that are available in our spaces. Learning about a new technology is easy and our activities are free! While the workshop is online, you are invited to join us at the Innovation Studio and try out these technologies for yourself during our open hours.
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Join us in a live, online session using OneNote 365 where we will discuss the structure of notebooks, practice putting data into them, and explore the interconnectivity of Microsoft applications with OneNote. This session is aimed for beginner users of OneNote.
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Facilitated by The Counseling Center’s Latinx Outreach Team and Sankofa Teams. This workshop will focus on healing from racialized trauma by introducing the concept of and actualizing a racial healing circle. Participants will develop a shared definition of healing through an inclusive lens and will learn about various avenues to healing, both collectively and individually
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The Champaign County Museum Network, along with the Spurlock, Krannert Art Museum, and other area museums, will host a trivia contest January 12 through February 7! This family-friendly contest challenges community members to experience local museums, science centers, nature centers, and archives virtually in order to answer some fun and engaging trivia questions.
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In this workshop, we will discuss how to mentor your students through group projects as a means to practice teamwork with an eye towards the professional world. Topics include getting buy-in from students, navigating potential pitfalls, and some suggestions for grading policies that encourage open but fair communication between group members and you.
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Join us for virtual office hours every Tuesday from 10-11am and Wednesday from 1-2pm on Zoom. Jamie and Megan will be there to answer your questions about the CITL Innovation Spaces, emerging technologies, student engagement, Zoom, PowerPoint, and other educational technologies on campus! Ask us anything! If we don’t have the answer, we’ll point you to someone who does.
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The Initiative in Holocaust, Genocide, Memory Studies is honored to host three incredible speakers and one incredible film on the occasion of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, 27th January, 2021, 2-4pm Central US Time, over Zoom.
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Let's meet online to talk about Illustrator. In this two-hour live session, we will go over recommended resources and tutorials, then work through a tutorial together to create our own vector graphic logo.
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Join us for a discussion of The Legend of Bhagat Singh (India, 2002). Professor Nilanjana Bhattcharjya of Arizona State University will offer insight on the film’s cultural and historical context. Dr. Bhattacharjya, honors faculty fellow and principal lecturer at Barrett, the Honors College at Arizona State University, has published widely in South Asian Studies, Film and
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Presenter: Lloyd Graham, MS, Assistant Director, Diversity Initiatives, Community Education Program Director, Indiana University. This Inclusion workshop will focus on concepts such as diversity, inclusion, and privilege. Students who participate will recognize the values of others, and identify differing social identities in relation to leadership.
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The Champaign County Museum Network, along with the Spurlock, Krannert Art Museum, and other area museums, will host a trivia contest January 12 through February 7! This family-friendly contest challenges community members to experience local museums, science centers, nature centers, and archives virtually in order to answer some fun and engaging trivia questions.
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Learn practical ways to organize your Compass site in ways that enhance engagement while reducing confusion. Best practices from current courses will be spotlighted. All sessions will be customized to the participants’ needs and also include training on using a simple campus survey. Registration is required.
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Register for this live session to learn about InDesign and make a brochure from scratch. Link sent after registration.
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In this short online course you will learn how to use some of the data analysis features and tools in Excel 2016. Topics will include learning the basics of PivotTables; using subtotals in a list of data; setting up data validation rules; using Goal Seek, Solver, and Scenarios.
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Join Annette Joseph-Gabriel, author of "Reimagining Liberation: How Black Women Transformed Citizenship in the French Empire", at The Polis Project Virtual Book Salon for a talk about her new book.
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Join exhibiting artist Bea Nettles and Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art Amy L. Powell for a virtual gallery conversation covering fifty years of Nettles’s experimental photographic techniques and formats.
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The Champaign County Museum Network, along with the Spurlock, Krannert Art Museum, and other area museums, will host a trivia contest January 12 through February 7! This family-friendly contest challenges community members to experience local museums, science centers, nature centers, and archives virtually in order to answer some fun and engaging trivia questions.
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Increase student engagement and participation. Fast-paced workshop introduces a variety of free digital tools for collaborating, practicing, and reviewing course concepts. *This workshop counts towards completion of any of CITL's Teaching Certificates. To learn more about our Teaching Certificate program please visit https://go.illinois.edu/teaching_certificates.
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Join us for a presentation and Q&A with Professor Lou Turner (Urban and Regional Planning) on the Hal Baron Project and what Baron's work can teach us about the current moment.
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In honor of Dr. Martin Luther King’s advocacy work around poverty issues, the School of Social Work, in partnership with the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, invites students, faculty, staff and community members to engage in a poverty simulation that bridges the gap from misconception to understanding in an interactive immersion experience.
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This event is part of the Becoming a Trans Inclusive Library Project. Join us for a reading and conversation with Anya Johanna DeNiro, a fantasy and science fiction writer based in Minnesota. She is the author of the novella City of A Thousand Feelings by publisher Aqueduct Press (2020).
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The Champaign County Museum Network, along with the Spurlock, Krannert Art Museum, and other area museums, will host a trivia contest January 12 through February 7! This family-friendly contest challenges community members to experience local museums, science centers, nature centers, and archives virtually in order to answer some fun and engaging trivia questions.
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The Champaign County Museum Network, along with the Spurlock, Krannert Art Museum, and other area museums, will host a trivia contest January 12 through February 7! This family-friendly contest challenges community members to experience local museums, science centers, nature centers, and archives virtually in order to answer some fun and engaging trivia questions.